Frankenhausen (Crimmitschau)

Frankenhausen City of Crimmitschau Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 33 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 38" E
Height :	232 m
Area :	8.51 km²
Residents :	1164 (Feb 29, 2012)
Population density :	137 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	08451
Area code :	03762
Location of Frankenhausen in Saxony

Parish with church

Restored parts of the Frankenhausen Cistercian convent

Frankenhausen is a town in the large district town of Crimmitschau in the Saxon district of Zwickau . The districts Frankenhausen (977 inhabitants), Gosel (52 inhabitants) and Gösau (135 inhabitants) belong to the village.

geography

Geographical location and traffic

Frankenhausen is the northernmost village in the city of Crimmitschau. In the north is the state border with Thuringia ( Altenburger Land district ). The 550 m long Pleißenbrücke on Autobahn 4 is particularly striking . The center of the village is the 2.8 ha large Hofteich on which the Crimmitschauer ice ( TV Frankenhausen ) has its roots. For the center are also the church with parish and outbuildings, the school and the monastery. The Saxon Heritage Protection Association in Frankenhausen is trying to restore it. The Mühlgraben and the Pleiße shape the townscape. Frankenhausen is on the Lutherweg Saxony .

Neighboring places

	Grünberg	Gosel
Gösau		Waldsachsen
	Leitelshain

history

The village emerged from two Waldhufendörfern , which lay on both sides of the river Pleiße. The place was mentioned for the first time in 1271 as a knight's seat of a Heinrici von Vrankenhusen . Dietrich von Landsberg donated the area to the Cistercian Sisters of Grünberg on May 4, 1276 . They moved to Frankenhausen in 1292. The new monastery burned down in 1410, and a new one was built soon afterwards. The monastery school and priory house that still exist today also date from this period. After the Reformation attendant secularisation of the monastery bought William of Thumbshirn the one in 1543 manor converted property. Later owners were u. a. the nobles of Planitz and the merchant and merchant Oeler (1764). The last owners until the expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945 were the baronial von Mansbach family. To the manor of the manor Frankenhausen belonged u. a. the places Heyersdorf , Obergrünberg , Niedergrünberg , Gösau and Gosel (Saxon part). Part of Frankenhausen belonged to the manor of the Gablenz manor

Frankenhausen originally belonged to the Schoenburg care Crimmitschau, which became Wettin in 1413 and was incorporated into the Electoral Saxon Office of Zwickau in the 16th century . Later, the place belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau until 1856 . In 1856 Frankenhausen was affiliated to the Crimmitschau court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration . The rural community Tempelfrankenhausen (1871: 328 Ew.) Was incorporated in 1877. As early as 1875 the Saxon part came from Gosel to Frankenhausen. Another part of Gosel was incorporated into Frankenhausen as a result of the exchange of territory that took place in 1928 and the associated adjustment of the borders between the Free State of Saxony and the State of Thuringia . The southern part of Frankenhausen is seamlessly connected to Crimmitschau, which Frankenhausen was attached to on July 1, 1950, and has partly lost its village character.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Frankenhausen became part of the town of Crimmitschau in 1952 and became part of the Werdau district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Werdau from 1990 and in 1994 in the Zwickauer Land district or 2008 in the district of Zwickau. In addition to the main town and the Saxon part of Gosel, the village of Frankenhausen also consists of Gösau, which was incorporated into Crimmitschau on February 1, 1973.

Gosel and Gösau

The districts of Gosel and Gösau still have a strong village character. Many farms in the Franconian architectural style , for the most part still in good condition or restored by the respective owners, bear witness to the former prosperity and hard work of the Saxon-Altenburg farming class. Most of the district of Gosel belonged to the Thuringian district of Ponitz , formerly part of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , until 1928 .

Personalities

Albert Kunze (1877–1949), painter, born in Frankenhausen

literature

Richard Steche : Frankenhausen. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 12. Issue: Zwickau Official Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1889, p. 20.

GA Poenicke (ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony. Re-recorded after nature by F. Heise, Architect, IV. Section: Erzgebirgischer Kreis. Leipzig 1860, Rittergut Frankenhausen, pp. 12-14 (near Crimmitschau)